Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by shadowgovt on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:18AM (#32594034)

It's simply not a concern. Google weaponizing Gmail against competition would be the biggest self-own the company could possibly undertake. Overnight they'd lose the trust of corporations in general, which would cost them the enterprise business, the Cloud business, and a non-insignificant chunk of the ads business.

Google is desperate to find a revenue tent-pole that even approaches the value of ads, and they've bet heavily on that tent-pole being Cloud. Any short-term gains they could acquire from cracking open a user's email would be dwarfed by the long-term losses from ruining their reputation as a reliable keeper of secrets, and they need that reputation to trade in the Cloud space at all.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by raxxorraxor on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:11AM (#32594724)

Maybe. AWS very likely did spy on customers. They met with startups and let them use their infrastructure. Then they launched their own service. They also host data centers for UK spy agencies. Industrial espionage is one of the largest field for these agencies. Doesn't have to be a chip like the Chinese used. And you wouldn't know anyone spied on you.

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